CHENEY, Person Colby, a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Holderness (now Ashland),
N.H., February 25, 1828; attended academies in Peterborough and Hancock, N.H.,
and in Parsonfield, Maine; engaged in the manufacture of paper in Peterborough
until 1866; member, State house of representatives 1854; during the Civil War
was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster in the Thirteenth Regiment,
New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 1862-1863; State railroad commissioner
1864-1867; moved to Manchester, N.H., in 1867 and engaged in business as a
dealer in paper stock and continued the manufacture of paper at Goffstown,
N.H.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected mayor of Manchester in
1871; Governor of New Hampshire 1875-1877; appointed as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Austin F. Pike
and served from November 24, 1886, to June 14, 1887, when a successor was
elected and qualified; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy;
resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Switzerland 1892-1893; died in Dover, Strafford County,
N.H., on June 19, 1901; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, N.H.